README.md

bitcoin-node

a tiny bitcoin node using rust-bitcoinkernel which is a wrapper around libbitcoinkernel.

Usage

run on regtest:

cargo run --bin btc-node -- --network regtest

there's also a CLI tool with 2 commands: getblockcount and getblock

• getblockcount similar to bitcoin-cli getblockcount returns the height of current active chain

cargo run --bin bcli getblockcount

• getblock returns a block at a certain height:

cargo run --bin bcli getblock 21